Written by

Beth LeBlanc
| Times Herald

On Wednesday, an excavator on a large barge about 1,300 feet offshore began digging the intake tunnel of the 60-mile Flint water line that will transport water from the shores of Lake Huron in Worth Township to Genesee County.

The excavator will unearth and recover the 78,000-pound tunneling machine that bored about 1,300 feet out under Lake Huron from a shaft 50 feet deep, said John O'Brien, an executive of the Karegnondi Water Authority. ...